Oh No, Goofy Smokes?!
I like Disney cartoons since young but I didn’t know Goofy had a dark past until I saw this video. Well, it just goes to show smoking can get people on the dark side.
Like claudiokun2007 said at YouTube: “It was an attempt to ridicule smoking and how desperate is a man who becomes dependent on nicotine in some dry burning mix of leaves”. Yet regrettably, kacpt said “Walt Disney is going to hell for this video. this cartoon is why i started smoking. 18 years ago.” It is sure weird to have Goofy asking for weeds but Aethumus commented that “Weed used to be slang for a self-rolled cigarette. It didn’t change into a marijuana connotation until the early to mid sixties.”
Perhaps the video was made in 1951 but it would better for Disney to send a clearer message. We have folks at YouTube wondering if this video is pro-smoking or anti-smoking.
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